Varun Dhawan on Kalank's failure at box office: Hit me hard, didn't know how to react

Expectations were high from Dharma Productions’ magnum opus Kalank , but it failed to impress critics and audiences. Despite being the biggest Bollywood opener of 2019 , the film was criticised for its depiction of the Partition and even the performances of the cast. Varun Dhawan , who plays Zafar, has now spoken about struggling with the underwhelming response to his film. [caption id=“attachment_6462891” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Varun Dhawan. Image via Twitter/@fav_actor_vd[/caption] “My 32nd birthday… But I am going to tell you how it all went down. I was a little down because my latest release did not go the way I thought it would and it did hit me a little hard, I will be very honest. I didn’t know how to react to it. Lot of people told me, ‘don’t show it.’ I don’t know how to behave like that. Failures are a part of life,” Dhawan said in a YouTube video he shared on his birthday. He also said that to divert his attention from the failure, his friends treated him to a birthday getaway to Thailand where he indulged in his favorite style of martial arts. “My friends had my back. [They] told me ‘pack your bags.’ I said, ‘What are we going to do?’ They said, ‘Muay Thai.’ We flew and the rest you can watch,” the actor revealed. Kalank, directed by Abhishek Varman, also stars  Sonakshi Sinha , Madhuri Dixit, Alia Bhatt , Sanjay Dutt, and Aditya Roy Kapur. Watch the video here.